ventral 1 1/3. 4n alcohol dark brown, without other markings 
than faded silvery reflections. Fins brown, Length 68 mm, 
(caudal damaged). One labeled "Fiji or Oahu", likely from 
the former, 
Comparison with # paratypes in the Academy, from Samoa, 
81 to 89 mm, long, shows several veriations, All have at least 
10 developed branched rays, and usually 9 in the soft dorsal, 
only one specimen with 10, The membrane between the second and 
third dorsal spines of the Samoan specimens is dusky; their 
rakers 97+17; scales about 24 and their basal radii 5 to 9, 
Four examples identified by Evermann and Yeale, from the Phil- 
‘euniueal as A, urotaenta Biecker’°’, certainly agree better with 
the above examples. They have 9 branched dorsal rays; 10 branched 
anal rays; lateral line complete; rakers 74-16; scales 27 or 28 
to caudal base and 3 more on latter, Now Bleeker's figures and 
descriptions would permit a greater variation?! In his first 
figure (2) he shows the hind preopercle edge serrate. He also 
arranges A, ubrotaenia with A. wolffi, in its fewer predorsal 
scales (7 to 9), while the Philippine examples before us, with 
14 or 15, predorsal scales, would all readily fall with the 
other group, or those he seggregates with 11 to 14 scales, 
Both hb figures show a smaller number of predorsal scries, 
2 ES 
Bull, Dury Fisher. UiS., mo 25, 1906 (1907), p. 75, 
110 
Atlas Ich, Ind, Neerl., vol.8,1876, pp. 133,135, P1.66, 
fig. 2; Pil 76, figs 4 
